Fingernails Quotes - Page 4

• Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.

  Imelda Marcos

  Gay, Doe, Opponents

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• For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Heart, Years, Broken

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• When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Guitar, Color

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• She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a bed. Enna nodded to the startled cottage dwellers. It's the queen, you see," said Enna. "She's going to have a baby in your house. You don't mind?

  Shannon Hale

  Baby, Queens, Blood

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Mean, Years, Black

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• I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.

  George Clooney

  Cat, Cutting, Hair

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• You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.

  Jim Goad

  Race, Paper, Rooms

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Thinking, Garden, Phones

  "Saving The Planet With Ed Begley, Jr". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• "Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.

  Debra Winger

  Girl, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Break Off, Looks, Red

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• If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.

  Robert Stack

  Fashion, Book, Men

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• You look like you deep fry your hands before you bite your fingernails.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hands, Looks, Like You

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• We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.

  Miles Teller

  Sexy, Nice, Character

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

  Bill Watterson

  Night, People, Would Be

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• I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

  Emo Philips

  Sexy, Thinking, Doors

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Dirty, Air, Perfect

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Gypsy, I've Learned

  Roger Ebert's review of "Drag Me to Hell", www.rogerebert.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

  Christopher Buckley

  Queens, Kings, Prayer

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• I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

  Hugh Jackman

  Sound, Chalkboards, I Can

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 24, 2013

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• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  Karlie Kloss

  Stories, Movement, Faces

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• CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled noir story twists on itself and adds layers and grows stranger and before you know it, BAM - it's the end of the world and all you can do is hang on by your fingernails. This really, truly is one of the best novellas I've read in years.

  Lisa Morton

  Simple, Years, Get Better

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• The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.

  Graham Joyce

  Fall, Rocks, Sky

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Rain, Loss, Thinking

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• Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Book, Cutting

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